Re: Migrating to informix 7.23

Mark D Stock <mdstock@informix.com> writes: > Linda Swartz wrote: >> I was told that I should migrate from 5.05 to 5.10 before >> migrating to 7.23. Has anyone had an experience with migrating >> directly from 5.05 to 7.23? What are the pitfalls? I feel that >> this extra step seems pretty extreme. > The pitfalls are that it won't work. ;-| > 7.x can only update the latest index structures etc. You could > probably get away with upgrading to 5.08 first, then 7.x, but > 5.10 is obviously the latest. > Of course this is updating. If you want to dump your data to > ASCII then import it into a new database server, then that's > another story, and an un-necessary one. I've just upgraded from Online 5.02 to DS 7.23 and there were no problems. Why does the migration guide say that you can upgrade? Or are the problems only relevant for SE? /Nic -- Niclas Bj'rkdahl Phone (home): +46-(0)31-19 49 02 Trestegsgatan 2 E Phone (work): +46-(0)31-707 25 93 416 59 G'teborg